St. Audrie's Bay, 17.0 m, Somerset, SW England (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• distance above base of Wilton member, Blue Anchor Fm.; Heliosporites reissingeri Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

• Water depths of at least a few tens of meters, sufficient to prevent wave-mixing of bottom waters, have been inferred; well-oxygenated conditions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Housed in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Primary reference: L. Mander, R. J. Twitchett, and M. J. Benton. 2008. Palaeoecology of the Late Triassic extinction event in the SW UK. Journal of the Geological Society, London 165:319-332 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78496: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.02.2008

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea hisingeri